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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Unfaithful, out-of-work actor Victor is desperate to win back the affection of his ex-girlfriend Sylvia before she marries another man, Dave Summers, but she is resolutely against this. Unexpectedly, he meets two very strange Spanish dust-men who, by means unknown, turn back time and allow him another chance to correct his mistake. However, fate again plays a hand and Dave and Sylvia meet, this time via Sylvia's best friend Alison, and again fall in love. This time around Sylvia is the unfaithful one and eventually leaves Victor to be with Dave. Desolate Victor can't believe his luck until he meets the beautiful Louise. Is this Victor's destiny of does fate have more tricks to play?; SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Goya Awards, Montreal World Film Festival, ...If Only - the second chance of a lifetime
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a really enjoyable witty Romantic Comedy. All the players give a very good performance. Special mention must go to Douglas Henshall who gives a great performance as Victor, a failing actor whose life falls apart after losing his girlfriend because he confessed to cheating on her. After a magical intervention by a very unlikely Spanish Refuse collector and his friend, Victor gets the chance to go back in time and stop his confession. However getting back his girl is one thing, keeping her is an entirely new ball game and we follow his efforts to stop fate, who seems determined to throw a spanner in the works at every opportunity.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
You must watch it to understand.
Marketed as a juvenile, humorous, comedy B movie, i think it's really A grade and makes a lot of sense.
How often have you wished to be back in time to fix/adjust your mistakes?
Well, the main charachter is given an opportunity, but is it that simple?
Or rather isn't there a deeper meaning for "what is meant to be"?
Which will eventually be against our whishes?
Some dialogues/scenes are state of the art.
Marketed as a juvenile, humorous, comedy B movie, i think it's really A grade and makes a lot of sense.
How often have you wished to be back in time to fix/adjust your mistakes?
Well, the main charachter is given an opportunity, but is it that simple?
Or rather isn't there a deeper meaning for "what is meant to be"?
Which will eventually be against our whishes?
Some dialogues/scenes are state of the art.
Format:DVD
Have to agree with the reviewer from Cambridge. Colourful but weakly scripted and set in a London that's like an European backpacker's daydream... Notting Hill, Camden, etc etc. And oh look, one of those 'piano bars' that people are always going to. It's interesting that many positive reviews come from reviewers outside the UK; that may explain why they missed the shockingly cheesy and unrealistic script - presumably it was translated from Spanish or similar, and no-one had the heart to tell the director how daft it sounded.
I guess it's worth watching as a kind of distilled essence of 90's - the shoes, the T - shirts, the hopeless films about Camden and Notting Hill.
I have added a star for the 'spirited' performances all round, or possibly for the scenes featuring Penelope Cruz.
An afterthought - I'm going to add a third star because despite all these criticisms, I still want to know how it ends after turning off the telly last night because it was on so late.
I guess it's worth watching as a kind of distilled essence of 90's - the shoes, the T - shirts, the hopeless films about Camden and Notting Hill.
I have added a star for the 'spirited' performances all round, or possibly for the scenes featuring Penelope Cruz.
An afterthought - I'm going to add a third star because despite all these criticisms, I still want to know how it ends after turning off the telly last night because it was on so late.
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This film is brill i can't believe this slipped past me in the late 90's the storys brill the main guy in it "douglas henshall" is proberly the ugliest man on the planet but hes... Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2008 by andy
Unforgettable film
This is a brilliant film, not to be confused with the 2004 film of the same title with Jennifer Love Hewitt (which I also enjoyed). Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2007 by Lorn
ignore the review from the lady from Cambridge, England!
This is a fantastic film. Clearly the person from Cambridge who rented this movie for her 'girly night in' is clearly only a girl and doesn't have the mental or intellectual... Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2004 by "samueldhill"
bad film.
rented this film for a girls night in and was geniunely surprised at just how bad it was. admittedly we did not watch it the whole way through and therefore there is a tiny... Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2004
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